I’m back again to share with everyone a new trick from Kermit. I’m proud to present to everyone Kermit’s very own Somersault Trick.

As Senegal Parrots are very acrobatic by nature, thus the trick shouldn’t post much difficulty to these african queens. Kermit learned the trick almost instantly.

Basically I used the similar steps and techniques that was used when teaching Kiki, my lovebird, the somersault trick. The only difference is that I used a wooden dowel pole as the hand perch, soon after Kermit was able to perform confidently under my hand and vocal cues, I replace the hand with perch with my right hand. Kermit progress really well during the trick training.

Any parrot owners interested in teaching this trick to your parrots, can refer to my previous post labeled Kiki’s Somersault Trick. The post highlighted the clear steps on how I guided Kiki into doing the somersault flip.

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Kiki’s Somersault Trick

Lately, Kiki has been very acrobatic and hyperactive, she’s into climbing I guess. I have seen her climbing up to my work desk through the extension cord from the ground. The extension cord acts as a ladder, a bridge to my work desk. I didn’t hesitate to teach her the Somersault Trick after she’s performed so many stunts around the house. It’s a fairly simple trick which Kiki learnt it within a day. I never ever doubt about Kiki’s capabilities in learning new tricks.

Kiki performing the trick…

How do I teach?
First a perch is require. Since Kiki has tiny feet I have to find a small perch suitable for her to perform trick on top of it. I have to ensure that Kiki is possible have full grip whole of the perch. I use a pen instead, I think is ideal and it does save cost too.

To get things started, I place Kiki on the perch. The other hand holding off the treat below her foot level. This force her to lean forward and left handing upside down like a bat. Next, I bring the treat back on top of the perch and this force to climb back to the perch to recover herself. When she did this, I praised her and gave her the treat. I repeated this cycle a couple of times until she can comfortably complete the cycle herself without the step by step coaxing her.

Soon she confident in doing the trick, I slowly enhance a recognizable hand cue and voice cue. Upon the hand cue and voice cue, when she able to perform the trick, I praised and treated her accordingly.